Lolita

1962

Directed by

Stanley Kubrick

Starring

James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon

Runtime

2h 34m

Country

USA

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.